WILD CHILD
Earth-295
Real Name: Kyle Gibney
Identity/Class: Alternate Earth (Earth-295), human mutant, citizen of Canada
Occupation: Adventurer, freedom fighter
Group Membership: None, formerly X-Men (Beak/Barnell Bohusk, Banshee/Sean Cassidy, Blink/Clarice Ferguson, Dazzler/Alison Blaire, Exodus/Bennett du Paris, Iceman/Bobby Drake, Magneto/Erik Magnus Lensherr, Morph/Kevin Sydney, M.O.D.O.K./'Charles Xavier', Nightcrawler/Kurt Darkholme, Rogue/Anna Marie Lensherr, Sabretooth/Victor Creed, Silver Samurai/Kenuicho Harada, Storm/Ororo Munroe, Sunfire/Shiro Yoshida, Weapon X/Logan, Wolfsbane/Rahne Sinclair, Quicksilver/Pietro Maximoff-Lensherr, X-23/Kirika Yashida), formerly Exiles-91172 (Kid Omega/Quentin Quire of Earth-91172, Nighthawk/Austin Rist of Earth-4400, Power Fist/Lucas Cage of Earth-8545, Spitfire/Jenny Swenson of Earth-15731), Beta Flight
Affiliations: Bishop, Destiny (Irene Adler), Gateway, Heroes of Earth-91172 (Sophie Cuckoo, Lightspeed/Julie Power, Patriot/Elijah Bradley, Speedball/Robert Baldwin, Two-in-One/Mindee and Esmee Cuckoo, Wiccan/Billy Kaplan), Charles Lensherr, Nanny, X-Force of Earth-616 (Deadpool/Wade Wilson, E.V.A., Fantomex, Psylocke/Betsy Braddock, Wolverine/James Howlett)
Enemies: Annihilation Wave of Earth-91172, Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur), Black Legion (Beta Red, Demon-Ock, Grimm Chamber, Iron Ghost, Orange Hulk, Zombie Sentry/Robert Reynolds), Clan Akkaba, Friends of Humanity, Holocaust (Nemesis), Infinites (Prelate Unus, unidentified others)
Known Relatives: Unrevealed
Aliases: "Boy", "Pup" (nicknames used by Sabretooth)
Base of Operations: X-Men
Memorial Gardens, New Apocalyse, New York;
formerly New Atlantis, Atlantic Ocean;
formerly the Xavier Institute, Washington D.C.;
formerly the Xavier estate, the Dead Zone (formerly
known as Westchester, New York);
formerly the underground X-Compound, Kentucky;
formerly Mount Wundagore, Transia;
formerly Alcatraz, San Francisco, California;
formerly the Canadian prairie
First Appearance: X-Men Alpha I#1 (March, 1995)
Powers/Abilities: Wild Child is a mutant with an accelerated healing factor and superhumanly acute senses, making him an amazing tracker. Wild Child also has sharpened claws and fanglike canine teeth strong enough to rend through brick and steel. Wild Child's intelligence is limited: he appears unable to speak, but is fiercely protective towards those he considers part of his pack. Due to his violent temper, Wild Child is kept on a leash at all times. The leash can be electrified to either prod him or knock him out.
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 155 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blond
History:
(Astonishing X-Men I#3 (fb) - BTS) - The feral mutant Kyle Gibney came
of age on the Canadian prairie where his main concern and joy was
finding a warm patch of grass.
(Official Handbook of the
Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - Gibney was one of
the original volunteers for Beta Flight, Canada's attempt at building a
super soldier program to secure their borders against the onslaught of
Apocalypse. Taking the codename Wild Child, Gibney's experiences in
service of his country seemingly took away most of his capacity for
human interaction and speech.
(Official
Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) -
During Canada's final days, Beta Flight was released in an
attempt to slow the charge of Apocalypse's Infinites. While the Canadian
evacuation planes for lceland were being loaded, Holocaust, along with a
platoon of Infinite soldiers, attempted to massacre the escaping
Canadians. Wild Child fought valiantly alongside his Beta Flight team
making it possible for hundreds to escape Nova Scotia.
(Official
Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) -
Holocaust killed most of Beta Flight but allowed Gibney to
survive. Believing Wild Child's ferocity would be an amazing asset for
Apocalypse, Holocaust took him as a pet and used him as his first strike
against his enemies. When dropped onto a battlefield, Wild Child was
brutally efficient at tearing apart anything in his path but he could
not distinguish between ally and foe. After attacking Holocaust himself
during the battle of Mexico City, Wild Child was placed in the soldier
rehabilitation center located on Alcatraz Island.
(Age of Apocalypse One-Shot I#1/3 (fb) - BTS) -
Wild Child did not take well to captivity. He grew even more aggressive
and blood thirsty, eventually eating three of his cellmates. When
Holocaust learned of this, he felt it would be a fitting punishment for
his disobedient servant Sabretooth to share a cell with Wild
Child.
(Age of Apocalypse One-Shot
I#1/3) - Wild Child and Sabretooth fought for three straight days,
pushing each other's healing powers to the limit until Sabretooth was
forced to give into his animal fury. He brutally asserted his dominance
over Wild Child who then instinctively accepted Victor Creed as his pack
leader. Together, they managed to escape Alcatraz Island.
(Official
Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) -
When Sabretooth decided to travel to Wundagore Mountain to join Magneto
and his X-Men, Wild Child was admitted to the team as well.
(Age of Apocalypse: The Chosen I#1 - BTS) - Apocalypse
listed Wild Child and Sabretooth among his Chosen, mutants he deemed
worthy of survival even though they were both "mindless savages who have
found comfort in each other's company". Apocalypse did wonder if their
symbiotic relationship had dulled their individual blood lust.
(X-Men Alpha I#1) - Wild Child joined Sabretooth and the X-Men on a
mission to Seattle to try and stop the cullings carried out by
Apocalypse's Infinite troops. Sabretooth sent Wild Child in to deal with
the forces of prelate Unus. Together, they helped save the mysterious
mutant Bishop who claimed to know Magneto.
(Astonishing X-Men I#1) - Sabretooth decided to join Rogue, Sunfire, Morph
and Blink in their attempt to stop Holocaust and his forces from killing
the human population of the midwest. He brought Wild Child, slumped
unconscious over his shoulder, aboard the X-Men's shuttle.
(Astonishing X-Men I#2) - Wild Child remained unconscious for most of the
X-Men reconnaissance mission in Chicago. Ultimately, Sabretooth convinced Blink to teleport him
and Wild Child to Holocaust to buy the others time
to help evacuate the city. Arriving near Holocaust,
Sabretooth woke Wild Child up by briefly
electrifying the chain he had him on. Awake and
alert, Wild Child instantly picked up Holocaust's
scent. Overly
confident and unaware of Sabretooth's strategy,
Holocaust freely revealed his plans and the
location of the Infinite factory. Wild Child
then ran off to get the information back to the
X-Men, dodging the strafing fire of Holocaust's
bio cannon.
(Astonishing X-Men I#3) - Wild
Child was chased by Infinites who were ordered
to stop him at all cost. One managed to hit him
in the back with an energy weapon, puncturing a
lung. However, he had managed to reach his
fellow X-Men Sunfire and Morph who protected him
until Rogue and Blink arrived. Unable to
verbally share what he had learned, Wild Child
licked Rogue's face to transfer his memories to
her. Rogue briefly became possessed by his rage
and bestial nature, brutally swatting him away
to stop the transferal. Thanks to Wild Child's
intel, the team was now aware of the location of
the Infinite processing plant in Indianapolis.
They decided to go infiltrate and destroy the
facility.
(Astonishing X-Men
I#4) - Wild Child aided the X-Men in their fight against
the Infinites, even trying to take down Holocaust who
involved himself in the fight. Ultimately the villain
was forced to retreat because his life preserving armor
was damaged during combat. Before he teleported out, he
revealed that Apocalypse's forces had invaded their
headquarters and that Magneto, Bishop and the others
were their prisoners. The X-Men then vowed to take the
fight to Apocalypse to make sure his reign ended once
and for all.
(Amazing X-Men I#4) - Wild Child and the X-Men returned
from Indianapolis to the Xavier Estate. Immediately,
Rogue took Sabretooth and Wild Child into the tunnels so
they could try and sniff out where her missing son
Charles had gone. However, they encountered Dazzler,
Exodus, Gambit and his X-Ternals who had learned Charles
had been taken to Apocalypse's citadel. Returning to the
estate, they ran into their other allies who had all
returned from the various missions Magneto had sent them
on: Shadowcat and Colossus had rescued the latent time
traveler Illyana Rasputin, Nightcrawler brought the seer
Destiny and the other X-Men had just liberated Bishop
from the Madri. Together, they set forth to storm En
Sabah Nur's stronghold on Apocalypse Island.
(X-Men Omega I#1) - Wild Child and the others were
teleported into the Pens underneath Apocalypse's citadel
by Blink. He
fought Apocalypse's forces, buying Bishop, Destiny and
Illyana Rasputin time to enter the M'Kraan Crystal and
restore the proper timeline.
(Official
Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - In
the aftermath of the final battle against Apocalypse, Wild Child
discovered the mostly feral were-mutant Rahne Sinclair in the ruins of New
York City. With Magneto's aid, Sinclair slowly regained a tentative handle
on her humanity.
(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of
Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - After Sabretooth became unstuck in time
and left Earth-295 to serve the Time Broker, Wild Child was left to fend
for himself. He grew closer to Morph who would frequently use his powers
to mimic Wild Child's missing master.
(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of
Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - Magneto sent Wild Child, Morph, Iceman
and Exodus on an unrevealed mission from which they did not return.
Because his team no longer had any trackers or active telepaths, Magneto
was unable to easily locate his missing allies.
(Exiles I#84 - BTS) - Finally able to take a break from his
duties as a member of the Exiles, Sabretooth returned to
Earth-295 to check in on Wild Child. When he couldn't find
Kyle, he met with Magneto and Rogue who told him Gibney was
still missing in action. The Lensherrs assured Creed that
finding Wild Child remained a top priority, even though it's
not even clear if he's still alive.
(Exiles Days
of Then And Now I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Wild Child found himself
alone and on the run, getting chased by the anti-mutant group
Friends of Humanity who were eager to make mutants pay for
Apocalypse's reign of terror.
(Exiles
Days of Then And Now I#1- BTS) - Sabretooth used the
Panoptichron's advanced scanners to locate Wild Child on
Earth-295. Posing as the Timebroker, he made sure
Earth-91172's Quentin Quire came to his aid.
(Exiles
Days of Then And Now I#1) - Quentin Quire arrived on Earth-295 to save
Wild Child from the Friends of Humanity. Sabretooth arranged for Wild
Child to join Quire and a number of heroes from alternate Earths to help
rescue Earth-91172 from Annihilus and his Annhilation wave. Wild Child,
somehow sensing he could trust the Timebroker, cooperated. He joined
Quire and the others to aid Earth-91172's remaining heroes in beating
back the alien invaders. In the aftermath Wild Child, now guided by
Nighthawk, decided to remain on this Earth.
(Uncanny X-Force I#11 (fb) - BTS) - Through unrevealed ways, Wild Child
returned to Earth-295 where he rejoined Sabretooth and the X-Men
who were now residing in New Atlantis. From there, they struggled
against the oppression of Weapon Omega and Clan Akkaba who had taken
over New York again. Over time, he relearned to communicate verbally,
though his vocabulary remained limited and his focus was mainly on
causing violence.
(Uncanny X-Force I#11) - When Earth-616's X-Force came to Earth-295 with
Dark Beast to claim one of that realities' Celestial Lifeseeds, they
found themselves opposed by Wild Child and a contingent of X-Men.
Believing them clones, the X-Men tore into the newcomers with Wild Child
and Sabretooth teaming up against Wolverine who took them both down. The
fight ended when Sunfire destroyed the Lifeseed and Sabretooth
recognized Earth-616's Psylocke from their time as members of the
Exiles. The X-Men took their visitors to New Atlantis to meet with
Magneto and Jean Grey.
(Uncanny X-Force I#12) - Earth-616's X-Force and Magneto's
X-Men joined forces to secure another Celestial Lifeseed and find a way
to return them to their native reality. Thanks to the X-Men's newest
member M.O.D.O.K., they located usable Lifeseeds within a Celestial
killed by Apocalypse years earlier. Wild Child joined the effort to free
the teleporter Gateway from Clan Akkaba's prison The Sky. However, once
inside they found the Black Legion and Weapon Omega waiting there for
him. The villain killed Wild Child's teammate X-23 with a single blast
from his hand cannon.
(Uncanny X-Force I#13) - During the fight
with the Black Legion, Wild Child tried to take on Blob. However, the
large villain proved impervious to his claws and once he got a hold of
Gibney, he began to devour his arm. Wild Child was rescued by
Sabretooth, but not before he lost a limb. While his arm regrew, Weapon
Omega kidnapped Jean Grey forcing the heroes to mount a rescue effort
with aid from the liberated Gateway. Weapon Omega was ready for the
heroes he was familiar with, but the elusive Fantomex managed to
outsmart him long enough for Jean to be freed. Using the Phoenix Force,
she forced Weapon Omega to back down before returning X-Force to
Earth-616 with the Lifeseed.
(Spider-Bot I#7) - When Earth-616's Spider-Bot and Lockjaw went on an
unexpected trip across several alternate realities, they briefly landed
on Earth-295 where Sabretooth had a hard time keeping Wild Child from
chasing after the giant teleporting dog.
(Uncanny X-Force I#17) - Wild Child joined his X-Men on a trip to
Earth-616 to help deal with the rising threat of Archangel, now
corrupted and empowered by a Celestial Deathseed. During a showdown in
the artificial environment known as The World, Archangel casually cut
Wild Child in half with his razor sharp wings. The feral mutant was
unable to recover from this massive injury (see comments).
(X-Termination I#1 - BTS) -
Wild Child was laid to rest with the
other fallen X-Men in a memorial
garden outside New York City, complete
with life-size statues.
(Strange Academy I#14 (fb) - BTS) -
Jericho Drumm showed his class at
Strange Academy images of Earth-295
during the Age of Apocalypse as part
of his lesson on time travel and the
major impact even minor changes can
have. The school's time travel
advisory prohibited students from
visiting Earth-295 during the Age of
Apocalypse without a faculty member or
sorcerer present.
(Rise of the Powers of X I#5) - Wild
Child was among the many deceased
mutants from countless realities whose
souls were summoned to the White Hot
Room by Earth-616's Jean Grey to help
her and the Phoenix finally defeat the
multiverse spanning threat of
Nathaniel Essex.
Comments: Created by John Byrne;
adapted by
Scott Lobdell & Mark Waid, Roger Cruz, Steve Epting, Tim
Townsend & Dan Panosian.
Considering Earth-295's divergence point
from Earth-616 is the death of Charles Xavier, this means that
technically Earth-295's Wild Child should largely have the same
upbringing as his Earth-616 counterpart. However, since this has not
(yet) been confirmed on panel, it's not included in the profile.
Wild Child is a bit of an odd one. Everyone acknowledges that he is a
fellow mutant, they even continually call him Kyle... And yet, no one
questions Sabretooth treating him like a wild animal, even zapping him
in and out of consciousness when needed. Sabretooth appears without
Wild Child in several stories, which makes you wonder where he kept
his "pup"... You'd almost think he was kept in a crate for his own
safety.
There were seemingly no attempts made to restore his grasp on
humanity. Perhaps the fact Magneto's X-Men roster was notoriously
light on (trained) telepaths had something to do with that..
The Age of Apocalypse One-Shot did a nice job
establishing how Wild Child and Sabretooth met. It's a little odd that
they were already wearing the exact same outfit during that first
meeting. A possible explanation might be that they both worked for
Holocaust and this is simply the costume hound type servants wore.
Speaking of odd... You'd think Wild Child's healing factor would have
been able to cope with the injury that ultimately killed him. After all,
if you can regrow an am within minutes, replacing the lower part of the
body should also have been doable. Maybe the fact Archangel was
empowered by the Celestial Deathseed somehow made the injury more severe
or the Death Seed possibly negated Kyle's healing abilities.
Not sure what the whole point was of moving Wild Child to Earth-91172
and make him a member of Quentin Quire's Exiles in the Days of then
and now oneshot. We never got to see the team again and by the
time Wild Child showed up again he was back on Earth-295 no questions
asked. Maybe Sabretooth decided to pick him up when he himself headed
back to his native reality.
All locations mentioned are Earth-295, unless otherwise
specified.
Wild Child of Earth-295 received a full profile in Official
Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1
Profile by Norvo
CLARIFICATIONS:
Wild Child of Earth-295 should not be confused with
Images: (without ads)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005
I#1, p38, pan1 (main)
Age of Apocalypse One-Shot I#1, p15, pan6 (accepting Sabretooth as his
master)
Astonishing X-Men I#2, p16, pans 4,5,6 (zapped to attention)
Astonishing X-Men I#3, p8, pan5 (briefing Rogue)
Amazing X-Men I#4, p10, pan1 (tracking down Charles)
Exiles Days of Then and Now I#1, p33, pan3 (joining Exiles of Earth-91172)
Uncanny X-Force I#17, p10, pan1 (dies)
Appearances:
X-Men Alpha I#1 (February, 1995) - Scott Lobdell
& Mark Waid (writers), Roger Cruz & Steve Epting (pencils), Tim
Townsend & Dan Panosian (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
Astonishing X-Men I#1 (March, 1995) - Scott Lobdell (writer), Joe
Madureira (pencils), Dan Green & Tim Townsend (inks), Bob Harras
(editor)
Astonishing X-Men I#2 (April, 1995) - Scott Lobdell (writer), Joe
Madureira (pencils), Dan Green & Tim Townsend (inks), Bob Harras
(editor)
Age of Apocalypse: The Chosen I#1 (April, 1995) - Ian Churchill
(pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Jaye Gardner & Kelly Corvese
(editors)
Astonishing X-Men I#3 (May, 1995) -
Scott Lobdell & Jeph Loeb (writers), Joe Madureira (pencils), Dan
Green & Tim Townsend (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
Astonishing X-Men I#4 (June, 1995) - Scott Lobdell (writer), Joe
Madureira (pencils), Dan Green & Tim Townsend (inks), Bob Harras
(editor)
Amazing X-Men I#4 (June, 1995) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Andy Kubert
(pencils), Matt Ryan (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
X-Men Omega I#1 (June, 1995) - Scott Lobdell, Mark Waid (writers), Roger
Cruz (pencils), Bud LaRosa, Tim Townsend, Karl Kesel, Harry Candelario,
Scott Hanna, Al Milgrom (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of
Apocalypse 2005 (March, 2005) - Mike Raicht (writer), Jennifer Grunwald
(editor)
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse One-Shot I#1 (May, 2005) - Akira Yoshida
(writer), Mark Brooks (pencils), Jaime Mendoza (inks), John Barber
(editor)
Exiles I#84 (September, 2006) - Tony Bedard (writer), Jim Calafiore
(pencils), Mark McKenna (inks), Mike Marts (editor)
Exiles: Days of Then & Now I#1
(March, 2008) - Mike Raicht (writer), Carlos Ferreira, Mario Gully,
Arnold Pender, Wayne Nichols (pencils), Zach Howard, Paul Azaceta
(pencils, inks), Terry Pallot, Sandu Florea, Vicente Cifuentes, Scott
Koblish (inks), Mark Paniccia (editor)
Uncanny X-Force I#11 (August, 2011) - Rick Remender (writer),
Mark Brooks (pencils), Mark Brooks & Andrew Currie (pencils &
inks), Jody Leheup (editor)
Uncanny X-Force I#12 (September, 2011) - Rick Remender (writer), Mark
Brooks (pencils), Mark Brooks & Andrew Currie (pencils & inks),
Jody Leheup (editor)
Uncanny X-Force I#13 (October, 2011) - Rick Remender (writer), Mark
Brooks (pencils), Mark Brooks & Andrew Currie (pencils & inks),
Jody Leheup (editor)
Uncanny X-Force I#17 (January, 2012) - Rick Remender (writer), Jerome
Opena (pencils & inks), Jody Lehup & Nick Lowe (editors)
X-Termination I#1 (May, 2013) - David Lapham, Marjorie Liu, Greg Pak
(writers), David López (pencils), Ãlvaro López, Allen Martinez
(inks), Jeanine Schaeffer (editor)
Spider-Bot I#7 (January, 2022) - Jordan Blum (writer), Alberto
Albuquerque (pencils & inks), Devin Lewis (editor)
Strange Academy I#14 (February, 2022) - Skottie Young (writer), Humberto
Ramos (pencils & inks), Tom Groneman & Nick Lowe (editors)
Rise of the Powers of X I#5 (July, 2024) - Kieron Gillen (writer),
Luciano Vecchio (pencils & inks), Jordan D. White, Lauren Amaro
(editors)
First Posted: 01/02/2025
Last Updated: 01/06/2025
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